Julie Simon

Artist Statement

My work crosses traditional boundaries. Trained in traditional film and video production, I’ve gravitated away from representational reality and toward the abstract and non-linear across many media.

The Static Light & Light Painting series of photographs are my latest foray into digitally painting with color and movement. This work uses photography much as an abstract painter would use a paintbrush. Color, shape, and movement are generated photographically and blended digitally. Where a painter might use a variety of brushes and paints to layer the canvas with texture and color, I intentionally move and jerk the camera, capturing frames filled with movement and light. That photographed light, in motion, becomes the raw material for the finished work.

In the past year, I’ve just begun to explore this way of thinking in still photography after many years of shooting figurative art. I’ve become intrigued with blending my two loves: the movement of video and the sense of captured time in still photography. My last several video art pieces have involved slowing down video to the point where we see each frame, deconstructed, as it streaks across the screen. This still photographic body of work turns that idea around. Moving the camera to create streaking, but only capturing one frame. In a sense, this body of work (both the photographic and video explorations) is a throwback to some of the spontaneous creation ideas of the American Abstract Expressionist painters of the mid-20th century, with a 21st century digital spin.

I’ve been working with the photographic process for more than 25 years - first in television news, and then in corporate media and education. After receiving an M.F.A. in Film/Video Production from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, I began to exhibit my experimental video, photographic, and interactive work on television and in art galleries/museums and on the web. I’ve won a number of prestigious awards for a wide range of media projects and currently direct the B.S. in Corporate Communication at the University of Baltimore.

Resume

Julie Simon lives and works in Ellicott City, Maryland

Selected Exhibitions:

Photography

2008(forthcoming)	Rhonda Schaller Studio, New York, New York.
2007	Goodlander Gallery, Easthampton, Massachusetts.
2006	Creative Alliance, Baltimore, Maryland.
1998-99	State of the Arts. Toured Various Galleries in the Mid-Atlantic.
1995	Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland.
1995	Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
1994	Albin O. Kuhn Gallery, Catonsville, Maryland.
1992	Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland.
1992	Richmond International Airport, Richmond, Virginia. .
1990	Gallery East, Havre de Grace, Maryland.

Film/Video

2001	ArtsScape. Baltimore, Maryland.
2001	Conversations Across Generations Festival. Farmington, Maine.
1995	Poetry Film Festival, San Francisco, California.
1994	Corcoran Gallery of Art, AMAMA Show. Washington, D.C.
1994	Fine Arts Gallery, UMBC, Catonsville, Maryland
1994	Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
1994	Gunston Theatre Two, Arlington, Virginia
1994	Artist League Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
1991	The Artists League Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
1991	Corcoran Gallery of Art. AMAMA Show. Washington, D.C.
1991	Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland.
1991	Roper Gallery. Frostburg, Maryland
1990	Interformat Film and Video Festival.

Video Installations

2004	University of Toledo. Toledo, Ohio.
1994	Ganser Gallery. Millersville, Pennsylvania.

Education

1989	MFA University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
1981	BA University of Denver.